The First International Conference on the World-Wide Web (also known as WWW1) was the first-ever conference about the World Wide Web, and the first meeting of what became the International World Wide Web Conference. It was held on May 25 to 27, 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference had 380 participants, who were accepted out of 800 applicants. It has been referred to as the "Woodstock of the Web". The event was organized by Robert Cailliau, a computer scientist who had helped to develop the original WWW specification, and was hosted by CERN. Cailliau had lobbied inside CERN, and at conferences like the ACM Hypertext Conference in 1991 (in San Antonio) and 1993 (in Seattle). After returning from the Seattle conference, he announced the new World Wide Web Conference 1. Coincidentally, the NCSA announced their Mosaic and the Web conference 23 hours later. Content Dave Raggett showed his testbed web browser Arena and gave a summary of his first HTML+ Internet Draft. He also submitted a paper for VRML. The Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago presented a web browser and HTML editor called Phoenix built upon tkWWW version 0.9. The editor extended the functionality of tkWWW. Best of the Web Awards The Best of the Web Awards were given out on May 26 following the "Best of WWW" contest set up by Brandon Plewe. The awards were selected via a two-month open nomination, and a two-week open voting period. A total of 5,225 votes were cast, with the winners averaging 100 votes. Best of the Web '94 Recipients Best Overall Site Winner National Center for Supercomputing Applications, U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Honorable Mentions World-Wide Web Home, European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) CMU Computer Science Dept., Carnegie-Mellon U. Global Network Navigator, O'Reilly and Associates Other Nominees SunSITE, U. North Carolina United States Geological Survey Best Campus-Wide Information Service Winner Globewide Network Academy Honorable Mentions Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - RPINFO St. Olaf College University of Kansas - KUFacts University of Texas - Austin Other Nominees Honolulu Community College State University of New York at Buffalo University of Maryland - Baltimore County Wake Forest University - Deacons Online Best Commercial Service Winner O'Reilly and Associates Honorable Mention Hewlett-Packard Novell, Inc. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other Nominees Arctic Adventours, Inc. Digital Equipment Corp. The Mathworks Inc Nine Lives Consignment Clothing Store QMS Quadralay Santa Cruz Operation Best Educational Service Winner Introduction to